> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root > partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? Look in your BIOS and check out the boot order options. Stuff like A,C,SCSI C,A,SCSI SCSI,A,C CDROM,A,C etc --Ian Ehrenwald